Is this what High Voltage meant when they said 'perhaps if HVS, Sega and nintendo could come to an agreement..'

A Wii Bundle with The Conduit.. Well it could be worth a shot but somehow I don't see Nintendo agreeing to this as it would essentially cement the sales of The Conduit as all Wii's are sold regardless of their price/games bundled anyway.

An official bundle won't happen unless Nintendo are seeing considerable profits from the deal.

Why woudn't both Sega and Nintendo profit from this ?

...the iluminati don't step in and prevent the sales of Conduit. They don't like publicity for their global economic and political power conspiracy.

Iluminati are casuals... They just play Chess and Little Big Planet.

Errr what are you smoking? Are you comparing the 9,000,000 sales of Halo 3 to some lil' insy developer that noone really cared about until they were seen to be pouring a lil' can of water on a drought in the Wii's game library?

Who knew bungie before halo?

Actually, Apple and Bungie were good pals before Halo was released, but then MS paid for them to stop developing Halo as a Mac exclusive and to develop it for xbox/windows.

Anyway, sweet looking boxart, and I believe that bundling it with the Wii would deffinately lead to great sales. That said I doubt that even that would let it outsell Halo

Here's how the meeting would go..

Sega: So we would like to talk about having an official Wii/The Conduit bundle for the games launch in early June

Nintendo: OK so what do you propose?

Sega: Basic Wii with The Conduit as a pack in title along with Wii Sports

Nintendo: OK so then your game would be getting a free ride and have to deal with little to no retail margins. Also as the Wii's sales are determined by supply, all of your games will be sold and you won't even need a marketing campaign to sell them. People would be confused as to why this game has joined Wii Sports as a pack in title.

Sega: The first thing is that we'll be pushing this game heavily from a marketing and retail standpoint. Secondly as we are aware that all of our stock will sell and that it won't have to deal with retail margins, we would like to price the bundle less than the Wii's $250 + The Conduit's $50 and increase the profit margins in your favour. We feel this would be a win-win situation.

Nintendo: So say we make a deal for 1 million Wii/Conduit bundles.. Each priced at $279.. That would mean that at the retail margins of 5% they would be taking $14 instead of $12.50 so you'd cover that plus increase our profits?

Sega: If we priced the bundle at $279 then from the extra $30 - We were looking at giving you an extra $5 so it would cover the $1.50 decrease and it would increase your profit for each Wii sold by $3.50. Multiply that by 1 million and this bundle would be profiting you an EXTRA $3.5 Million. Sega will then match that with advertising specifically for the bundle.

Now it sounds awesome and the way I've written it has Sega very aggresive in their argument - It also means that 1 million sales will come from people that don't own the Wii and that is increasing their sales even more as most sales will probably come from people who own the Wii already. I was attempting to disprove this but in the end I made it seem like a possibility :P

To outsell Halo is just needed to be bundled for 6 or 7 months alongside every Wii...

And about Apple and Bungie.... There's a Mac version of Halo!!! I don't get it...

A decent number actually, Marathon has a cult following and Oni/Myth weren't too bad either.

The difference between the two? You're aren't pleasantly surprised if a Bungie game rates above 70% and with High Voltage, fewer than 1/4 of their games have had that priveledge.